Grus americana—Whooping Crane

The Whooping Crane (Grus americana), once present in the thousands during migration, has
been identified at few sites in the fossil record of our region, though specimens from Rancho La Brea are relatively common.

†Grus pagei—Page's Crane

Sites.

The type locality is Pit A of Rancho La Brea. The holotype cranium represents a species of Grus much smaller than G. americana and averaging somewhat smaller than G. canadensis in all of its elements (Campbell 1995).